(The attention post by Australian Quarntine and Inspection Service in its homepage)
The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and eating moon cake on that day is a tradition for most of the Chinese people. For the people overseas, they are more eager to eat mooncake from hometown. But this year, the mooncake export in China faces up with more strict standard set by other countries, such as the US, which restrict Chinese mooncake’s export.
As for import of mooncake, America, Canada, Spain, Australia and New Zealand all prohibited egg products in mooncake fillings. European countries have tight regulations on moon cakes with nut fillings; Japan has also added regulations about preservatives and additives used in moon cakes. France, Germany, Thailand, Sweden, Colombia, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria all prohibit the sending of moon cakes by post.
Recently, the US Food Safety and Inspection Bureau of the Department of Agriculturehas mandated that food containing traces of meat, poultry and egg products need be manufactured under supervision of US food inspection authorities or trusted foreign food safety and regulation agencies before being admitted into the US. Hui Lee, a manager of mooncake company, said :” If we make mooncake by their standard, it’s not mooncake anymore. So we canceled all the orders this year.”
References:
1.Dark Side of the Moon Cake: Countries Ban Holiday Imports
2.中国月饼海外受阻 ( Export of Chinese mooncake runs into obstacles )
Links:
What is Mooncake?
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